/*
 * Created on Feb 9, 2005
 * Created by Alon Rohter
 * Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Aelitis, All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 * 
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 *
 */

package org.gudy.azureus2.plugins.messaging;

import org.gudy.azureus2.plugins.network.RawMessage;

/**
 * Encodes messages into a raw message stream format for sending.
 */
public interface MessageStreamEncoder {
  
  /**
   * Encode the given message into the raw message output stream format.
   * @param message to encode
   * @return raw message encoding
   */
  public RawMessage encodeMessage( Message message );
  
}